Principal AI Deployment Architect - Remote (Lagos)

Scrums.com; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrums.com is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to lead its most complex applied AI deployments. The role combines executive advisory, product strategy, architecture, and hands-on engineering to frame problems, define production paths, and solve difficult constraints.

You will shape how enterprises deploy governed AI across software delivery and critical operations, mentoring senior engineers and aligning with CTOs and heads of engineering.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of professional software engineering experience leading complex production programmes.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, data platforms, cloud architecture, or ML systems with hands-on coding.
• Experience taking AI or data-intensive products from ambiguous requirements to production.

Responsibilities

• Lead executive and technical discovery for complex enterprise programmes and identify measurable value from AI deployments.
• Define target architecture, deployment strategy, governance, and success measures for multi-team AI programmes.
• Design and, when needed, build high-risk components across agents, models, data, integrations, infrastructure, and security.
• Set standards for context, tool authority, permissions, evaluations, guardrails, and observability within the AI agent harness.
• Coordinate delivery through the orchestration platform across customer teams, internal engineers, AI agents, and partners.
• Guide model and vendor selection while preserving customer data control over infrastructure, performance, and cost.
• Review architectures, resolve incidents, and decide on reliability, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop reusable deployment patterns and reference architectures to improve outcomes.
• Mentor senior engineers and act as a technical counterpart to CTOs and heads of engineering.
• Collaborate with product leaders to translate field insight into platform improvements.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Machine learning

Executive stakeholder mgmt

Job description

Scrums.com is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to lead its most complex applied AI deployments. The role combines executive advisory, product strategy, architecture, and hands-on engineering to frame problems, define production paths, and solve difficult constraints.

You will shape how enterprises deploy governed AI across software delivery and critical operations, mentoring senior engineers and aligning with CTOs and heads of engineering.